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  • As residents at Milwaukee County nursing homes contracted and died of coronavirus, administrators and local officials kept it to themselves

    April 24, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, West Allis, Wisconsin

    After the coronavirus outbreak devastated a nursing home in Wisconsin unbeknownst to the residents' family members and the public, advocates and lawmakers called for more transparency from the facility. The agency, joining other care facilities in the state and nation, is now reporting cases according to newly implemented protocols regarding transparency and timeliness, as a means of helping "family members and health care workers plan for their safety."

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  • McDo réquisitionné, autogestion : les collectifs de quartiers nourrissent des milliers de Marseillais

    April 24, 2020 |

    Basta Mag |

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    Response Location: France, Marseille

    Depuis le début du confinement, des citoyens organisent des collectes et des distributions de nourriture au profit des personnes les plus touchées par le ralentissement économique à Marseille - avec une efficacité exemplaire.

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  • During Ramadan in isolation, Muslims get creative to preserve community

    April 23, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    As the Ramadan season begins, Muslim communities around the world are making adjustments to how they observe it in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Minneapolis, the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is broadcasting the call to prayer by speaker and in the U.K., the National Huffadh Association has created an online toolkit on how to pray at home. With connection and community a key part of Ramadan, a Reddit thread has started, connecting people for a Secret Santa-style Eid gift exchange, and a Minneapolis programmer has started an online service matching people in time zones to break fast together.

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  • How School Districts Are Outsmarting a Microbe

    April 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Schools across the United States are patching together solutions in the aftermath of the mass migration to online learning brought on by COVID-19. Wi-Fi hotspots, webinars with parents, and office hours are the new normal. But teachers and administrators insist it is important to set realistic goals and not put place much pressure on themselves or students.

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  • Cultivating communities of care

    April 23, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    A mutual aid group in Boulder Country has directed their efforts towards making sure people are accounted for and that they have the goods they need during the coronavirus pandemic. Although the effort is just one of many both in the county and nationwide, they've responded to 70 requests from community members so far. "Help is great if it comes from the government or if it comes from a state apparatus, that’s fine," explains one of the organizers. "But you don’t have to wait if you can get organized with people in your community."

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  • Campaña Juntos por Guanacaste entregó canastas básicas a 577 familias de Santa Cruz

    April 23, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, guana

    Organizaciones privadas con y sin fines de lucro crearon una red de recaudación y entrega de alimentos para las familias afectadas por los cierres por la pandemia por COVID-19. Muchas de las organizaciones ya trabajaban en el área y lograron adaptar sus bases de datos y estructuras para asegurar que el recurso llegara a las personas más afectadas en la región de Guanacaste, Costa Rica, donde trabajaron.

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  • How the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle forged relationships with communities of color

    April 23, 2020 |

    Better News |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    After learning that communities of color were virtually “invisible” in local media coverage, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle formed working groups and reached out to community partners to better understand their community. They also employed a social listening platform called Hearken. This helped them answer the central question, "How do we write FOR audiences of color instead of merely about them?"

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  • Test, trace, contain: how South Korea flattened its coronavirus curve

    April 23, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    With one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and a rapidly declining rate of new COVID-19 cases, South Korea has emerged as a world leader in containing the pandemic. Many credit widespread testing and contact tracing, or the tracking of infected people using their own descriptions of their movements as well as GPS phone tracking, surveillance camera records, and credit card transactions. Though it had a distinct advantage as one of the most connected countries in the world, South Korea's model is being replicated widely.

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  • Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

    April 23, 2020 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Walnut Creek, California

    Addiction experts have been offering online counseling for addiction patients for years but have also been working to change a federal law that required patients seeking medications to help with withdrawals to first make an in-person appointment. The coronavirus pandemic has now expedited that change, and with the regulation lifted, doctors are able to offer medication-assisted treatment via online appointments in addition to the counseling.

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  • These coal communities are protecting sick miners from COVID-19 and pushing Congress for more support

    April 23, 2020 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee and Kentucky, rural coal communities are drawing on their decades-old networks of mutual aid to protect coal miners from COVID-19. At the legislative level, the National Black Lung Association and other Appalachian groups are coming together to push for more coal miner protections in coronavirus stimulus bills. At the local level, communities are organizing phone trees to share necessary information, helping with grocery and prescription delivery, and providing greater access to broadband for those without reliable internet.

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